At 08:20 PM 11/16/06, you wrote: >I have bought a MSF5000 of the above type. It is set up for >939.4750/900.4750 MHz TX/Rx, trunking. I want to use it with a CAT >controller. I have not got the manual yet, but will order it soon. It >looks to be in great shape and pegs my 100 watt Bird when I toggle the >transmitter. Is this repeater programmable via a PC or by some other >method to get it tuned down to the ham band? On a little plastic lid on >top of a box, this is written, which looks like some software type: >SSCB R05.40, TTRC R05.27, SMARTZONE, RSS R5.16 RQD > >I am totally ignorant of this type of repeater technology and really >don't have the energy to modify it myself. I am looking for the right >direction to go. I am in the DFW area (just east of Dallas). > >This repeater is eager to be hooked up to an antenna up at 350 ft. in >Dallas at our location (I-75 and I-635)! > >Thanks in advance. > >W5RD, Roger >145.43, 223.82, 224.18 MHz >TIARC
I suggest that you go to the repeater-builder.com web site, then to the Moto page, then to the MSF page and absorb the "Photo Tour" article and the interfacing articles. When you get the manual go through the interfacing articles as you look over the schematics and see what he's doing. Once you determine that you can determine how to interface your own controller. Major hint: you will want to program the MSF to be a dumb duplex base, with no identifier. Let the controller do as much as it can. That one programs with a PC running RSS, and you need a SLOW computer - preferably a late 386 or early 486. The RSS article on the repeater-builder Moto page may also be of interest. Mike WA6ILQ
